The children with COVID-19 in Dr. Eugene Daugherty’s pediatric intensive care unit often have one thing in common: obesity.
“At least 9 out of 10 patients that we’re seeing who are sick enough especially to be in the ICUs throughout the state, obesity plays a part in this,” said Daugherty, who is with Novant Health’s Children’s Hospital in Charlotte.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been numerous studies worldwide showing the heightened dangers that COVID-19 poses to people who are overweight. The World Obesity Federation, for instance, has shown that death rates from COVID-19 have been 10 times higher in countries where more than half of the population is overweight.
But some doctors and health experts are questioning whether public health officials have done enough to convey that message, especially to younger people.
“It feels like — at least in the messaging that I’ve seen — as though it’s being treated as more of a footnote than anything else and something I feel like a lot of people have missed,” said Dr. Daniel Donner, a physician at Novant’s Pediatric SouthPark Clinic.
Donner says it’s particularly important because the number of obese children he’s seeing is increasing, with roughly 1 in 5 children 6 and older that comes to his practice having obesity. He believes it’s due to stay-at-home orders that closed schools and kept children indoors.
How much of a risk? “Among people older than 65, obesity was listed as a risk factor in 9% of the COVID-19 deaths. For people younger than 65 it was a risk factor in 34% of COVID-19 deaths.”
SARS interacts with ACE-2. “ACE-2 receptor expression is highest in the microvasculature of the lung, fat, and brain with lower amounts in the liver, kidney, and heart.” quote is from the paper submitted by the doctors from the FLCCC. It is referenced in a previous thread: “How It Works” from Oct1.
They don’t dare raise the spectre of obesity in North America and expose corporations and government agencies for decades of poisoning people. They are responsible for overwhelming amounts of processed and unnatural foods that are stripped of most nutrients .and crammed with sugars and chemicals. Canada’s food guide is simply killing some people and following it is a recipe for obesity and type 2 diabetes, IMO.
Also, a reminder these COVID policies are not about public health anyways, they are all about increasing government controls, grinding down our will, and in turn, killing our democracies. Fucking leftards and RINO’s.
I agree that this isn’t about public health. Our mistake (again) is trying to reason with people using facts and logic. Fauci can flip-flop back and forth and it doesn’t matter. Large gatherings to protest the right causes are fine while protests against vax passports are irresponsible and a direct threat to our health care system. Story after story about fully vaxed patients ending up in hospital or dying are “break through cases” while every single unvaxed case (regardless of co-morbitities) is proof that everyone needs to get the jab. The study of 2.5 million people that Rand Paul quoted where researchers found natural immunity to offer 7x better protection than vaccination – ignored. The province in India that used Ivermectin as a therapeutic and saw amazing results – ignored. Obama’s birthday party with 700 A-listers – totally fine. The fact that Pfizer had to pay a 2.3 BILLION fine for corruption and bribery charges in 2009 – immaterial. Pfizer is beyond reproach today and it’s not at all weird that they demanded legal immunity from any possible side-affects from their totally safe vaccine. People are deliberately staying ignorant and deserve to get governed good and hard.
Facts and logic only work with people of reason and a willing spirit to learn.
Here is some medicine.
https://gab.com/voxday/posts/107023333324643244
The two people I knew personally who died of the CCP virus (both about 60yo) were obese, one especially so. My neighbor’s sister too – also overweight apparently.
“But some doctors and health experts are questioning whether public health officials have done enough to convey that message”. Definitely and on purpose/by design! This information was suppressed because otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to justify all the massive power grabs associated with this dumpster fire. The “medical community” is a joke who I have zero faith in anymore. (I’ve never had any respect for government buffoons).
Case in point:
https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Near-death-from-COVID-19-at-25-New-Haven-man-16497684.php?t=5735f6625f
Yet libtarded woke snowflakes deem fatso, lardass, and tubby as hate speech – when such admittedly callous words just might shame and motivate said blimps into some lifestyle changes.
Was discussing the old standby, fatso, just the other day at work.
Its not an insult, its an accurate description.
I don’t hate people because they’re fat, but my automatic respect for a person automatically diminishes if they’re a land whale.
Alternative Headline: If Wuhan kills fat kids in the forest, do health experts make a noise?
The fact that the answer is no makes it apparent that many lack a conscience.
“Among people older than 65, obesity was listed as a risk factor in 9% of the COVID-19 deaths. For people younger than 65 it was a risk factor in 34% of COVID-19 deaths.”
That looks more like correlation than causation. Are members of the lard-arsed community more likely to sit around indoors and not get any vitamin D? Are certain genetic types (vulnerable to covid) more likely to be members of the lard-arsed cummunity? That sort of thing.
No, younger people are less likely to have the equally serious co-morbidities associated with advanced age. That’s what it means. And the morbidly obese are less likely to make it past 65 in general, so there are fewer of them as age increases.
Vitamin D from sunlight is generally only sufficient if one lives between latitudes 40° North and 40° South.
It seems less a matter of vitamin D intake and more a matter of caloric intake vs exercise that’s the issue with a lot of folks. And anyways, I think it stands to reason that it would take a sh*tload of vitamin D to be of any help for an obese person.
Notice the striking absence of BMI in “death by the vid” data.
Drive by any primary or secondary school in my town today, then go home and look at photos of those kids contemporaries from the fifties. We’ve evolved a society where the poor people are (mostly) fat because they are dumb and the rich people are (mostly) skinny because they are smart enough not to get fat. BTW, while you are observing today’s generation of kids, check the faculty. Moby Dick in the flesh.
Money has alot to do with it.
Healthy food that leads to normal body fat is just plain MORE expensive.
The cheap crap is what’s making the fat and diabetes.
The food processor conglomerates know this, yet continue to pump this shit out.
It doesn’t help that schools DO NOT teach children anymore on healthy food choices , it probably wouldn’t matter anyways since the parents are the ones shoving the crap food in front of them.
The constant propaganda from TPTB on what to eat and drink has lead to this point .
The old axiom ” an apple a day keeps doc away ” has become a myth in peoples minds.
Question is, what to do about it among the other equally troubling myriad of problems.
Our society almost always takes the most convenient path.
Which is easier: modifying your diet and activities to reduce weight or taking a couple of injections?
The preference for convenience and the easy way out explains much of what we see around us.
“Convenience and the easy way out” is also applicable to not waiting for complete long-term data on the vaccine side effects and efficacy. “Looks good, let’s go with it and inject a few billion people, we can figure out that other stuff later.”
Isn’t it criminal negligence by our dear leaders and their media harem girls to be essentially hiding the obesity factor?
I see endless ‘get the jab’ ads, why no ‘lose some weight’ ads?
These media dickheads are so proud of their virtue signaling for vaccinations while completely ignoring the other major factors in covid risk.
What pathetic mindless puppets they are.
Well, “fat shaming” has been outlawed in today’s PC society. Like other aberrant behaviours, the PC crowd demands this as a ‘positive’ body image instead.
Just like we are told to accept junkies, “they are just like you and me, it can happen to you!”, and trannies, we are told not to question authority on these issues.
Because SHUT UP!
Obesity is the elephant in the room. Pun intended. The cry should be, “Get a move on!” not “Get the jab!”
WTF ever happened to those Partisapaction Ads, you know the one comparing a 60 year old buff Swede to a tired 20 something.
I graduated from high school over 50 years ago. My class of 30 to 36 kids had one fat kid. When I look at her picture now she wasn’t particularly fat. I was a 6′ 2″ rail at 180 pounds. My son, slightly taller but somewhat more athletic, weighed 230 pounds at the same height. Today maybe a quarter of the kids are obese, a lot of them seriously obese.
I’m guessing there is something in the diet or the environment causing this. When I was young, every meal consisted of endless potatoes fried in lard, loads of meat and vegetables and always a substantial dessert yet I was a rail. I don’t get it. Today I’m a fat rail.
My guess is the snacks and pop.
Pop has no sugar now ( unless it’s Kosher ), which is the first thing burned by the body, it has glucose and/ or ” ose” in it.
Basically corn syrup.
Corn syrup is treated by the body as fat and gets stored away for burning at a future date.
Kids and adults drink alot of that crap including the chemical laced ” diet ” pops.
Most foods have it in the ingredient list as a substitute for sugar and fats.
Coupled with coronary heart disease inducing palm and rapeseed oils, you get some unhealthy foods.
Your ” healthy ” dessert of yore ain’t today’s version masquerading as the same thing.
Coupled with way too much takeout and not enough home cooked meals, here we are.
Whatever happened to drinking a glass of milk, juice or water ?
This virus, along with euthanasia, is killing off all the “drains on society” thus making room for the semi-permanent voters blocks of whoever is crossing the border this month.
It’s all a plan.
Parents can be blamed for buying rubbish for their kids and letting them stare at screens as opposed to playing outside.
The Roman Empire, too, was filled with a vapid, chubby elite.
Old people are expensive to take care of and with few exceptions, except to immediate families, not much use. Obese people have been warned often enough. Young people are always expendable. Not much of a sacrifice in order to save the planet. Welcome to the New World Order.
What a brave, new world.
Murkowski is featured on Yahoo News bemoaning the stats in Alaska. This reminded me of Native American communities and how they are being impacted by Covid. Anyone?
From Microsoft Bing: According to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health, American Indian and Alaska Native adults are 1.6 times more likely to be obese than Caucasians. In addition, almost 33 percent of all American Indians and Alaskan Natives are obese.